MAKEPEACE, Oliver 1888-1955

MAKEPEACE, PENNEY, BALSLEY

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 5/20/2011 at 12:48:33

Makepeace, 67,
Found Dead at
County Home

OSAGE, IOWA — Oliver Makepeace, 67 was found dead about 5:30 Monday afternoon at the Mitchell County Farm. Death probably occurred about 3:30 p.m.

Tentative funeral rites are set for Friday at 2 p.m. at the Champion Funeral Home, Osage. Burial will be in the Little Cedar Cemetery.

Makepeace was born near Castalia, July 7, 1888, to Charles and Ella Makepeace. He came to Little Cedar with his parents while a small child.

He was in the U.S. Marines in World War I, when he became a shell shock victim.

Survivors include three sisters: Mrs. Addie Balsley, Osage; Mrs. Gladys Penney, Little Cedar and Mrs. Carl Canfield, Davenport, Washington; and a brother, Otis Makepeace, Grand Rapids, Michigan.

[Mason City Globe Gazette, Tuesday, November 22, 1955 --- SB]